Do you want to make money with hubpages. In this article you will get all useful information, which is required to set up your account for maximum profit and to make passive income. But remember that quality articles thrive.
Before we go into any further details, its necessary that you know certain important things about hubpages. Make sure you also read their guidelines carefully.
- They will help you to make maximum profit
- Gives you full control on social network, profile page and self branding
- Really great tracking systems ( which gets updated every 10 minutes )
- They also work on votes ( thumbs up and down )
- They give you do follow links ( only after you get total 75 out of 100 )
- Your hubs get featured on front page, every time you publish new ( irrespective of points, positions )
You are already warned..
- They hate spam
- They have very tight moderation team.
- You account can get banned easily ( Your IP, blogs links, social profile, Adsense account, name, address, phone number ). All of them will get black listed, even your images and videos ( Your profile image also )
Get Started To Make Money With Hubpages
So finally what it really requires to make some real money is, hard work, unique content, authority and your passion. Hubpages is a place which allows you to write on what you imagine. It can be just anything. You have just focus on the quality content, and then leave rest to their staff members ( I mean they will handle the huge traffic you are going to receive on your pages ).
Setup your account : Promote Yourself
Its really easy and takes less than a minutes. Make sure that you choice correct username. Since its going to act like a subdomain ( something like: yourusername.hubpages.com ). After registration you will have to complete three steps :
- Add the avatar
- Your own biography ( also include the domain link with anchor text )
- Start your first hub.
That’s all. Be professional while writing about yourself. And make sure you add your own picture. Now you are ready to explore and promote yourself
- Move to your niche related pages.
- Comment, vote and follow them. Send them message and ask them to do the same ( At-least 5 everyday : Chances to get 3 followers )
- Move to their official forum and lets them know, you are here.. FORUM
Focus On Usename : Its really important
If you going to use this service to promote any particular niche specific product or ” self service “. Then its really better to chose your username based on your keyword. This will help you get extra boost in the search results ( from search engines ).
Make Money With Hubpages With Your First Post
It’s really exciting, right. I know you want to proceed, but please read the few of the important points listed below. They will help you to make your article SEO friendly, user-friendly and attractive. It’s really important to drive some organic traffic. You can’t just rely on the visitors from comments and social networks. If you want to make some real income then you really need some targeted traffic.
Before Writing
- It’s really important to perform keyword research
- Use long tail keywords as you main link structure
- Use intitle:”keyword”, inurl:”keyword”, “keyword”, to get the real competition overview.
Search Engine Optimization For Hubpages
- Your title should contain your keyword.
- If title already taken, then add few numeric values at last.
- Chose correct category ( Please be specific )
- Use tags to full potential. Add all kind of related words. ( Help people to find your article )
- Use your own images ( Use free tools like Picasa or GIMP to modify it )
- Add alternate text to images
- Your first and last module’s title should contain your main keywords
- Create hubs with 600 or more words ( performs well in Bing and Yahoo )
Create Attractive Articles
- You can use wordpress text editor to add the bullets and different types of text values ( Then copy the HTML source )
- Make sure to keep the sentences short.
- Use bullets and numbering
Remember that the more creative and detailed you go, the more you get change to make money with hubpages. Every one likes detailed reviews. So if you are able to present it, then their much more change to make affiliate sales.
Finally Tips On How To Generate Income
It’s really important to have account in amazon, ebay, clickbank, envato affiliate programs. You must also have Adsense account ( if not you can get it verified with your hubpage )
- After your first module make sure to add amazon products. Make sure that the referral product is in your concerned topic.
- Connect your Adsense account ( if you don’t have any then, try to keep writing unique hubs for at-least a month or two, and then apply for Adsense )
- Add ebay affiliate products
- Promote clickbank
You will surely get sales, but the maximum income comes from google Adsense. Their placement is really good, and they don’t hurt you when you are reading. That’s all. If possible also try to include videos, if you are creating any review or tutorial. Also add the transcript.
For Maximum Profit Track Every Thing
Referral Program : If you have signed up for this service, then you must have got and referral id. Use it for referring your friends and readers and you will get 10% of the income generated by them ( every time and every year ). Learn how to set up tracker
- Usually when any new user try to register, he gets the link as : http://hubpages.com/user/new/
- You can get your tracker from : https://hubpages.com/my/earnings/trackers
- Now you have to set up the link along with your tracking code and it should look like : http://hubpages.com/_yourcode/user/new/
- Remember that you have to add ” _ “
As you already know, you can craft content on any desired topic. It can be wordpress theme, plugins, designing, review or almost any thing. I think you must have got a better idea.
Promote the themes from themeforest, template monster and other market place. There are more than 5 different markets owned by envato. Promote them all. Use beautiful banners and always add the alt text to them
Use google analytic to track everything. Hubpages provides its integration. So go ahead and see which hubs perform very well. It is usually observed that articles which are 4 to 5 months old performs really good in driving organic traffic. You can also promote any kind of referral programs. But make sure that it is under the quality guidelines of hubpages.
- Don’t create any new hub for themes or plugins.
- Just add the image and write little bit of description about them.
- Make your images click-able. Use services like Tiny URL for shortening the links.
Remember that don’t use this trick in the hubs which is not connected to your affiliate product in any way. You can use this methods : Say you writing about WordPress security, then you can add few of the premium security plugins, framework themes.
You can use similar methods for different topics. Say you are writing about free vpn servers. Then you can add few premium ones all around. Same for hosting services, games, apps and others.
Remember that you don’t generate any passive income with promoting these programs, but you make it from Adsense program. So it’s really important to make sure that you create contents which falls under their quality guidelines, or you will lose your account.
I wish my article on How To Make Money With Hubpages would have helped you a lot. I have tried to add the required details and informative links. Please share it, and if you have any questions, ask it in the comment area.














Hi Vivek,
Helpful breakdown!
Any site which can expand your presence is a winner. As you note, follow the rules. Avoid bans. Create value, share your content and be persistent. A winning formula for sure.
Thanks!
RB
Thanks Rayn For The comment..
I Really enjoyed reading this. Thanks for this wonderful post. I hope to see more posts in the future.
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Thanks and maintain up the good work .
Glad you liked this Guide. I will be updating the tips on money making with hubpages.